In the front room of the Hasty Pudding building, the women of the Seneca have gathered on a frigid weekday afternoon for the first event
in their "Women's Awareness" speaker series.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the first tenured female professor at Harvard Business School, is scheduled to address the group. She is half an hour late.
The Seneca--founded last Spring as a social group for women--has tried to get the word out about this event.
Organizers sent e-mail announcements to every student group they thought might be interested, and Kanter's picture has top billing on the Seneca's new website.
A sophomore from Delta Gamma--a campus sorority--waits patiently in the second to last row of metal folding chairs. "I came because I thought this sounded interesting," Nora C. Cheng '02 says. "I hope they do more of these events."
Two tables sit heavy with trays of cookies, platters of cheese and crackers, cans of soda and a pot of tea.
A Seneca member in slim black pants and a raspberry-colored silk top circulates around the tables, discretely replenishing the cheese platters with Ritz crackers.
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